University of Miami Mourns Footballer Jojo Nicolas on Twitter

The University of Miami community was saddened to hear that former football player Jojo Nicolas died around 5 p.m. Wednesday after a horrific crash involving a semi-trailer truck on the MacArthur Causeway Tuesday. Fans, students, and Nicolas' former teammates took to Twitter to send their prayers and communicate their grief...

By Jess Swanson

February 27, 2014

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The University of Miami community was saddened to hear that former football player Jojo Nicolas died around 5 p.m. Wednesday after a horrific crash involving a semi-trailer truck on the MacArthur Causeway Tuesday. Fans, students, and Nicolas' former teammates took to Twitter to send their prayers and communicate their grief.

A social media trail shows that Nicolas and his brother Abner Davis had been pre-celebrating Nicolas' 25th birthday (on March 3) at Mansion Nightclub in South Beach. Before the crash, Davis' Twitter was filled with anticipatory statements of your typical club night, and after the crash, he was heartbroken.

Brandon Washington was an offensive linesman for UM while Nicolas was there. He is currently playing with the St. Louis Rams.

Chris Yandle serves as the University of Miami's primary football contact and oversees the athletics communication office:

Brad Kaaya is a recruit who signed with UM football earlier this month:

Various UM social media accounts reflected mourning.

Miami Herald UM Football beat writer Manny Navarro remembers other 'Canes who passed before Nicolas.

The background on Abner Davis's Twitter page is currently a photo of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly from the movie Step Brothers.

...words can't express what you meant to me #29 #mybrotha #countrynggasaintslowLOL http://t.co/cAqUk0fyy8
— TUCK the HUMAN (@2Tuckz) February 27, 2014

I can't let him see me cry.
— TUCK the HUMAN (@2Tuckz) February 27, 2014

And Jojo Nicolas' Twitter reflects a proud Hurricane who posted plenty of #tbt posts from his days on the field, and photos of his attendance to games at SunLife Stadium.

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Jess Swanson is a staff writer at New Times. Born and raised in Miami, she graduated from the University of Miami’s School of Communication and wrote briefly for the student newspaper until realizing her true calling: pissing off fraternity brothers by reporting about their parties on her crime blog. Especially gifted in jumping rope and solving Rubik’s cubes, she also holds the title for longest stint as an unpaid intern in New Times history. She left the Magic City for New York to earn her master’s degree from Columbia University School of Journalism, where she spent a year profiling circumcised men who were trying to regrow their foreskins for a story that ultimately won the John Horgan Award for Critical Science Journalism. Terrified by pizza rats and arctic temperatures, she quickly returned to her natural habitat.

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